AN NCS PREMIERE: PUTRED — “DEVORAT DE ÎNTUNERIC”

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Jan 162026
 

(written by Islander)

Almost one year ago we published our contributor Zoltar’s very insightful interview of veteran guitarist Uriel Aguillon, riff-writer of the Romanian death metal band Putred. The discussion included this revealing Q&A:

Do you think that Putred would have sounded different if you hadn’t been born in the first half of the ’70s, and thus had the chance to catch the whole death metal boom when it all started?

Absolutely! I’ve been in the metal underground since the mid ’80s and it is what I know how to do, it comes naturally, and I couldn’t continue listening to new stuff after 1996, so I got stuck in the past for good. Putred is old rusted murky and filthy rotting death metal based in that feeling/mood rather than anything else.

This is an honest claim, and an accurate one when it comes to the music of these Transylvanian ghouls. One year ago Putred had just launched their second album Megalit al putrefac​ț​iei, and this year they’re returning with a new album titled Blestemul din Adânc that’s set for release in March by a trio of conspiring labels. What we’ve got for you today is a visualizer premiere for the record’s first single, “Devorat de Întuneric“. Continue reading »

AN NCS INTERVIEW: PUTRED

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Feb 062025
 

(On January 20th a quartet of international labels released Megalit al Putrefacției, the highly anticipated second album by the Romanian death metal band Putred, and to follow up on that we now present Zoltar‘s interview of the band’s main man Uriel Aguillon, who as you’ll see has quite a history.)

Even from a European point of view, Romania remains one vast uncharted territory in terms of extreme metal, despite the fact that Metal Archives lists no fewer than 500 bands, with only the late Negurā Bunget having left a deep and still brooding mark (although the band ceased to exist over eight years ago). Yet somehow for those who know where to look in the deepest pits of the underground for the latest death metal sensation, a few low-key acts like Vorus, Reveler or Demoted kept coming back lately. Turns out all those bands/projects share more or less the same members, with guitar player, sometimes vocalist, engineer, and producer Uriel Aguillon at the very center of it.

Interestingly enough, Aguillon was born and raised in the US and was living in the country until a decade ago. Yet what is now, according to him, his main focus Putred might be one of the very first death metal bands to use Romanian for their lyrics. Not that it should stop you on your track, as song-titles like “Aura Macabra” or “Parasit In Purgatoriu” easily let you know what kind of murky swamps you’re about to enter.

Speaking of which, most of the music featured on the band’s just-released second album Megalit Al Putrefacției, after a whole bunch of demos and splits, is as fetid, lumping instead of running, while its decayed flesh reeks the kind of foul odor only downtuned and primitive old-school death metal manages to summon.

The fifty-year-old musician agreed to shed a light on his background, Putred‘s newest offering, how he ended up in Romania, and why playing death metal with your wife is far more entertaining than attending a couple’s night out at your local bingo club. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: PUTRED — “ERA MORBIDITAȚII”

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Dec 162024
 

(written by Islander)

In this feature we’re helping spread the word that the Romanian death metal band Putred have their second album Megalit al Putrefacției set for release by Memento Mori on January 20th, just in time to scare the New Year to death in its crib.

By way of introduction for the song premiere we’re now hosting, here’s part of how Memento Mori‘s press release evokes the sensations of the music:

“Sonic references across Megalit al Putrefacției are many – Mortician at half-speed, Cianide at their world-eating best, early Necrophagia‘s weird textures, Apparition / Sorrow with a shot of energy, and of course the unholy trifecta of Bolt Thrower, Asphyx, and Grave.”

The same write-up refers to the riffing as “slamming” and “slithering,” and the atmosphere as “slimy,” “rancid,” and “foul-smelling,” and both brutalizing and eldritch. But of course we have some thoughts of our own, spawned by this new song, “Era Morbiditații.” Continue reading »